Vision & Mission

Who We Are

Every year, nearly six million children under the age of five die.Unfortunately, the causes of these deaths often remain a mystery due to gaps in disease surveillance, death registries and data to inform evidence-based policy —especially in low-resource countries, where mortality rates are highest.

The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) Network works to close these gaps by gathering the evidence needed to save young lives.As a 20-year program supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CHAMPS seeks to identify definitive causes of death, and prevent child deaths through community engagement, diagnostic and laboratory innovations, surveillance network advances, policy-to-action activities and rapid, open access to data.